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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Danny Boyle - Creating Wonder

I feel
extremely privileged today to hold in my hands the latest biography about the
life of Oscar winning filmmaker and storyteller, Danny Boyle – who is a fellow
northern lad, to boot.

There’s
good reason for this too.

Around
April time I received an email, from someone called Amy Raphael, pertaining to a request for permission to use
the quotation I penned for the dedication page used in the first volume of
Worlds End.

As always
with these kinds of things I had to ascertain if this was a windup or spam or
the real deal. Happily it was the latter and I agreed to have the permission
granted.

Now, in
late summer as we look towards the twilight of 2013, I hold the book with the
quotation resplendent in its position, proudly displayed at the front of the
book, at the beginning of the 2013 Foreword.

Like the
book from which it is taken it reads:

“This is
for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or
across the sea and wondered,,,”

Tim
Perkins, Worlds End: The Riders on the Storm

I cannot
tell you how proud I am at the moment that a fellow writer thought enough of my
words to seek to use it in her own book, about a much-respected fellow
storyteller, in the first place – but I am so happy she did.

Is it
serendipity that it all took place on the birthday of my biggest storytelling
influence, Jack Kirbyor simply fate?

Whatever,
it leaves me with a huge beaming grin this evening, as I prepare to start to
read the book itself,

I would just
like to say a huge Thank You to Amy for thinking the words were worthy of a
quotation.

This
evening, I’m off to make a brew and a little supper and then plan on settling
down for a read…